CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A cellphone camera video made by the wife of Keith Lamont Scott as he was fatally shot by police shows the moments before and after the incident, including her pleas to her husband to get out of his truck, and her pleas to the officers not to shoot him.

But the video, which was given to the Times by lawyers for the family on Friday, does not include a view of the shooting itself. Nor does it answer the crucial question of whether Scott had a gun, as the police have maintained.

One of the lawyers, Justin Bamberg, who is representing the family along with Eduardo Curry, said in an interview Friday that the video did not prove whether the shooting was justified or not. Rather, he said, it offered “another vantage point’’ of the incident. He said he hoped the Police Department would release its own videos of the shooting, as protesters have been demanding since Scott was killed Tuesday afternoon.

The lawyers said the cellphone video was shot by Rakeyia Scott, Scott’s wife Tuesday afternoon. Scott had parked his car in a visitor’s space in their apartment complex, where he often waited for one of his children to return home on a bus. The police were there to serve a warrant on someone else.

The lawyers said Scott had come out of the apartment with a cellphone charger for her husband and noticed that police officers were around the truck.

The video, more than two minutes long, begins with shaking images of grass and the voice, apparently that of an officer, shouting, “Hands up!’’

City officials have refused to release the police video of the shooting, saying they do not want to impede their investigation.

The beginning of the video shows a view of Keith Scott’s white pickup truck and multiple police officers around it. Keith Scott is not visible.

Immediately, Rakeyia Scott says, “Don’t shoot him,’’ and begins walking closer to the officers and Keith Scott’s vehicle. “Don’t shoot him. He has no weapon. He has no weapon. Don’t shoot him.’’

An officer can then be heard yelling: “Gun. Gun. Drop the gun. Drop the [expletive] gun,’’ at the same time that another police vehicle, lights flashing, turns in front of the camera.

“Don’t shoot him, don’t shoot him,’’ Rakeyia Scott pleads, her voice getting louder and more anxious. “He didn’t do anything.’’

By this time, 20 seconds into the video, Rakeyia Scott is standing behind two police cars and walking closer and closer to the scene.

“He doesn’t have a gun,’’ she says. “He has a TBI’’ — an abbreviation for the traumatic brain injury the lawyers said Keith Scott sustained in a motorcycle accident in November 2015. “He’s not going to do anything to you guys. He just took his medicine.’’

“Drop the gun,’’ an officer screams as the wife tries to explain her husband’s condition. “Let me get a [expletive] baton over here.’’

“Keith don’t let them break the windows. Come up out the car,’’ Rakeyia Scott says, as the video shows an officer approaching Scott’s vehicle.

“Drop the gun,’’ an officer shouts again.

“Keith, don’t do it,’’ Rakeyia Scott shouts, as the video shows her backing away a bit and panning to the ground. “Keith, get out of the car. Keith, Keith. Don’t you do it. Don’t you do it, Keith.’’

Bamberg said that Rakeyia Scott was trying, in those statements, to “get him to stand still’’ after he eventually got out of the car.

Fifty seconds into the video, shots ring out.

“Did you shoot him? Did you shoot him?’’ Rakeyia Scott shouts, her voice getting louder with each second. “Did you shoot him? He better not be [expletive] dead. He better not be [expletive] dead. I know that [expletive] much. I know that much. He better not be dead.’’

The video then shows Keith Scott lying on the ground with officers around him.

“I’m not going to come here. I’m going to record, though,’’ Rakeyia Scott said. “I’m not coming near you. I’m going to record, though. He better be alive because — he better be alive.’’

Bamberg said of the video: “Right now we don’t have enough facts to say whether this shooting was justified or unjustified. That’s what we’re trying to find out.’’

“One reason why this video is being released,’’ he said, “is we wanted to give the city and police department the opportunity to do the right thing and release the videos they have available that clarify the situation a bit, and could potentially answer some of the outstanding questions.’’

Chief Kerr Putney of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police has brushed aside demands by activists, community leaders and the media to make the police videos public. “We release it when we believe there is a compelling reason,’’ he said.

Putney said that eyewitness accounts and other evidence suggested that Keith Scott had been holding a pistol when he was shot, and that a weapon had been found at the scene. But, he also said the police videos may leave more questions.

“The video does not give me absolute, definitive visual evidence that would confirm that a person is pointing a gun,’’ Putney said.

Until they viewed the police videos Thursday afternoon, Scott’s relatives had said they were uncertain whether they should be released to the public, according to Bamberg.

Although the family members differed with the police on some major points about the videos, they seemed to be in agreement with Putney on one aspect. “It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Scott is holding in his hands,’’ they said in a statement.

At a news conference on Friday, Charlotte officials repeatedly said that the police videos should not be released without a full report.

“If I were to put it out indiscriminately, and it doesn’t give you good context, it can inflame the situation and make it even worse,’’ Putney said. “It will exacerbate the backlash. It will increase the distrust. So that is where discernment, judgment and reasonableness have to come in.’’

But pressure continued to mount on the city, and the state’s attorney general, Roy Cooper, soon after called for the police videos to be released.

“We must continue in the pursuit of truth while also continuing the important work of bringing our communities and law enforcement together to build trust and safety for all,’’ said Cooper, who is also the Democratic nominee for governor. “One step toward meeting both goals is for the videos in this case to be released to the public.’’

Some of the words of Rakeyia Scott as heard on her cellphone recording: